US-led coalition lies about the number of civilians it has killed in Iraq and Syria

The US-led coalition on Friday confirmed that in fight with the ISIS another 50 Iraqi and Syrian civilians have been killed by air and artillery strikes. The coalition claimed since the fight with ISIS began in 2014, the total number of civilians it has killed, after adding the recent casualties, is 735 people.

In a statement, the coalition said that during August, it received 185 reports of civilian casualties. Of the 185, only 14 reports were considered credible by the US coalition, which put the number of deaths at 50.

The US military said that in fight with ISIS in Iraq and Syria, it takes all viable precautions and goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties.

However, the US coalition’s official number of civilian casualties is significantly below the numbers of outside organizations. A monitoring group called Airwars, claims over 5,486 civilians have been killed by the coalition since the war began. The group puts the number of coalition strikes at 27,417 in Iraq and Syria, over 1,147 days of campaign. 98,532 bombs and missiles were dropped according to Airwars data.

The military not only lies about the civilian death toll, it’s also doing a horrible job at avoiding it.